One formidable challenge facing India lies in crafting a merger review regime that protects the country’s legitimate sovereign interests while avoiding the imposition of undue costs on merging parties and consumers. Christine S. Wilson, Ellen M. Jakovic, & Aaron L. Nielson...

The performance, management, and risk exposure of financial institutions operating in rural and agricultural markets determine the cost of agriculture’s ongoing access to financial capital. The evolution of general banking and agricultural finance research contributions in the structure,...

An integral condition is derived that is equivalent to the condition that the expected number of excursions by a normal random walk beyond a boundary is finite. In the case where the expected number of excursions is infinite, the asymptotic size is determined relative to the number of steps....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors (farm, operator and household characteristics, along with farm type and regional location of the farm) affecting financial performance of new and beginning farmers and ranchers. Design/methodology/approach – Returns on assets...

Productive (economic) efficiency and factors affecting it was evaluated in the Caribbean between 1983 to 1992. Results from non-parametric programming indicated that efficiency (i.e. pure technical, allocative and economic) measures were lower and more variable in Caribbean than in other Western...

Productivity growth, technical efficiency change, and technological change were measured for a sample of 30 countries in the Western Hemisphere for the 1978–1994 period using the Malmquist index. The Caribbean compared unfavorably with North America and the Latin American regions. Evidence...

The purpose of this article is to study the impact of agricultural policy decoupling on land allocation decisions. Our analysis contributes to the literature by formally assessing the effects of decoupling on farms' crop mix and on the decision to set land aside. The analysis is undertaken...